[spectre] (fwd) Call- New Technological Art Award Foundation Liedts-Meesen 2012

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Call for Entries - New Technological Art Award Foundation Liedts-Meesen 2012
Update_4

15 September-18 of November 2012

Zebrastraat Gent
Zebrastraat 32/001
9000 Gent
Belgium
http://www.ntaa.be
http://www.newtechnologicalartaward.be


After update_1 in 2006, with as curator 
Jean-Marie Dallet, professor and researcher 
linked to ÉESI, responsible of the laboratory of 
the école d'art Figures de l'interactivité, 
Angoulême-Poitiers, France, followed by update_2 
in collaboration with the ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst 
und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe and with as 
curator Peter Weibel, Director of the ZKM, and 
finally update_3, in collaboration with the 
Centre Pompidou, Service Nouveaux Médias and as 
curator Christine Van Assche, guardian of the 
Centre Pompidou, we are determined to continue 
this series with update_4, to be held from 15th 
September till 18th of November 2012.

We want to put some new accents in update_4. 
Previously, the exhibitions were combined with 
the New Technological Art Award Liedts-Meesen, 
which enjoyed a growing interest from the part of 
the artists and the public.

For this reason, we want to increase the 
importance of this contest by taking the 
following measures:

* New and adapted rules, which are stricter, and 
will focus more specifically on the artistic 
contribution of the new technologies,
* The number of nominees who will have the 
opportunity to show their works of art during 
update_4 will pass from 10 to 20,
* Finally, the works will be presented at three 
sites: Zebrastraat in Ghent, La Cambre in 
Brussels (for works to be shown in the open air), 
and iMAL, also in Brussels

As previously, the nominees will be selected by a 
professional jury, which will also award the 
final prize of 5000 EUR; besides this, there will 
also be a prize from the audience.

The second part of the event consists of an 
exhibition of renowned artists in the field of 
New Technological Art. Only two or three works 
will be presented at each site.

To these two activities will be added a third 
one, namely the organization of a three days 
colloquium on new tendencies in contemporary art. 
We will invite a number of artists and 
personalities from all over the world, who would 
discuss during the day certain topics related to 
this art movement. The conclusions of their 
discussions and the texts of their papers will be 
published in the form of a reference book, 
replacing the previously published catalogues.

As you can see, we evolve from the concept of an 
exhibition combined with a contest, towards an 
event combining exhibition, contest and 
colloquium, yielding a reference book.